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Nine Power Platform responsibilities, from environments to Microsoft support, running past the project handover with no end date
Power Platform

Power Platform managed services: what running the estate involves after go-live

Power Platform managed services cover what a project leaves behind: environments, data policies, capacity, licences, alerts, releases and the support gaps.
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Nine Power Platform responsibilities, from environments to Microsoft support, running past the project handover with no end date
Power Platform

Power Platform managed services: what running the estate involves after go-live

Power Platform managed services cover what a project leaves behind: environments, data policies, capacity, licences, alerts, releases and the support gaps.
Conditional Access signals such as user, app, device, location and sign-in risk feed one baseline policy tested in report-only, which grants access with MFA or a compliant device or blocks it; apps still on AD FS, linked apps and apps with local accounts sit outside its reach
Azure

Conditional Access deployment across Microsoft 365 and federated apps

A Conditional Access deployment from Microsoft’s own guidance: licences, security defaults, report-only testing, break-glass accounts, federated apps and cost.
Diagram of the four routes by which content becomes readable by everyone in a Microsoft 365 tenant: Everyone except external users on a site, broken inheritance, groups that grew and redeemed sharing links, with EEEU and groups that grew highlighted as the two met most often
Copilot & AI

Copilot data readiness: the controls that decide what it can surface

Copilot data readiness is a permissions job before it is a labelling one. The SharePoint, label and DLP controls Microsoft documents, and what each
Diagram of the five Success by Design phases, Discover, Initiate, Implement, Prepare and Operate, above an arrow from Lifecycle Services, closed to new cloud implementation projects since 16 February 2026, to the Power Platform admin center, with a note that RSAT is unsupported after 15 May 2027
Dynamics 365

F&O implementation in 2026: how the delivery actually works

An F&O implementation still runs on Success by Design, but new projects no longer start in Lifecycle Services. FastTrack, environments, testing and updates.
What a Microsoft licence review finds: unassigned seats still billing, inactive users still licensed, overlapping suites, and under-licensing that can add to the bill
Azure

Microsoft licence review: what it should find, and when you can act on it

What a Microsoft licence review should find, from Microsoft’s own reports and terms, and the dates on which each finding can actually come off
What changes moving Teradata to Fabric Data Warehouse: BTEQ scripts become stored procedures, FastLoad, MultiLoad and TPT become pipelines and COPY INTO, SET tables allow duplicates, primary keys are not enforced
Microsoft Fabric

Teradata migration to Microsoft Fabric: what changes

Planning a Teradata migration to Synapse? Microsoft’s tooling now points at Fabric. What changes for BTEQ scripts, SET tables, loaders and time zone data.

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